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Scientists measured the brain activity of people trying to discern real from synthetic faces.
President Joe Biden has issued an executive order to regulate AI. The directives could help avoid AI doom – but they miss some key points.
The use of deepfake videos seems to undermine people’s trust in all types of media.
Virtual influencers have relationships, explore the world and take risks. The web is their playground – but they don’t exist.
AI can manipulate a real event or invent one from thin air to create a ‘situation deepfake.’ These deepfakes threaten to influence upcoming elections, but you can still protect your vote.
AI can generate a synthetic voice that sounds just like a loved one.
After years of campaigning, the nonconsensual sharing of images is being made a sexual offence.
Artificial intelligence could be used to generate content intended to manipulate people. Addressing this problem means understanding how communication works to influence people.
User-generated data can be used to build AI clones who can sound and behave like the source individual.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, people now need to pause and wonder whether it actually hatched from an egg.
Generative AI can seem like magic, which makes it both enticing and frightening. Scholars are helping society come to grips with the potential benefits and harms.
The use of deepfakes and AI by groups with various interests, including governments and media, is the latest and most sophisticated tool in information and disinformation campaigns.
One of the biggest headlines in the gaming community last week involved a deepfake porn scandal. Such material is one example of how generative AI can cause immense harm.
Deepfakes have found their perfect vehicle in comedy – which allows them to be enjoyed without fear of deception.
Text-to-image generators like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion portend a future where anyone with a computer can fake a photograph of just about anything.
Despite their dangers, highly realistic deepfake images and videos are finding positive uses in the creative arts.
AI-generated voice-alikes can be indistinguishable from the real person’s speech to the human ear. A computer model that gives voice to the dinosaurs turns out to be a good way to tell the difference.
Earlier this year, a deepfake impersonating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spread on social media – with Zelenskyy supposedly asking Ukrainians to surrender to Russia.
To combat the rise in deepfakes used in fraud, employees and investigators need to be aware of the threats involved.
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Assistant Professor, Educational Technology, Chair in Educational Leadership in the Innovative Pedagogical Practices in Digital Contexts - National Bank, Université Laval
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